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Most people take for granted which hand they use to reach for a cup of coffee or a puzzle piece. However, a new study out of ...

Have you heard the common trope that left-handed people are more successful in creative endeavors? There are plenty of anecdotal examples to make the case: Michelangelo, Albert Einstein, Paul ...

Have you ever noticed how some people write, eat, or throw a ball with their left hand? Left-handed people make up only a small part of the world’s population, which makes them pretty special.

From minimal access to left handed tools like scissors, to even the building of infrastructure with only right handed people in mind, many left handed people know, first hand, just how much the world ...

Does it make any difference if a human is left or right-handed or if a dog prefers to use his left or right paw when manipulating objects? I am continually struck by the similarity in the behavior ...

THE LEFT-HANDED have long struggled in a right-handed world. But they are over-represented in one field: one-to-one sports such as fencing and tennis. The conventional explanation for this is that the ...

Researchers say they have found, for the first time, the genetic markers that influence whether someone is left-handed. They also found those people may have an advantage over right-handers when it ...

A couple of years ago, I walked in on my left-handed mother attempting to cut a strip of fabric with right-handed scissors and silently cursing to herself. “We live in a world designed by right-handed ...